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Flash Flood Warning 147, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 31, 2022Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2022, 1:35 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 2022, 1:35 PM MDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2022, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 31, 10:49 AM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 10:49 AM MDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 6:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 30, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	45 min
Jul 30, 6:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	4 hr
Jul 30, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	20 min
Jul 30, 7:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	3 hr
Jul 30, 7:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 7:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Union	3 hr
Jul 31, 2:17 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba and 5 more	19 hr
Jul 31, 1:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	24 min
Jul 31, 1:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 31, 1:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jul 31, 1:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	2 hr
Jul 31, 1:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	112 min
Jul 31, 1:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	3 hr
Jul 31, 2:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	34 min
Jul 31, 3:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 31, 3:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 31, 3:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	24 min
Jul 31, 4:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Jul 31, 5:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 31, 5:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 31, 5:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 31, 5:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	38 min
Jul 31, 5:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Jul 31, 5:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	30 min
Jul 31, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	24 min
Jul 31, 5:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.